He could not sleep, he ate like a wolf and suffered from terrible migraine

After graduating in 2008, he stayed in Chicago and launched Braintree, honing his image of a Mormon entrepreneur conquering the world. By that time, his father had quit and openly shared his problems, and Johnson saw his dying father behind an impenetrable wall. He could not sleep, he ate like a wolf and suffered from terrible migraine, trying to fight off with useless medicines: antidepressants, bio-additives, power engineers and even blind submission to the rules of his church. In 2012, at the age of 35, Johnson was at the bottom. In his sorrow, he remembered Shackleton, and the last hope came to him: maybe he could find the answer after going through painful trials. He planned a trip to Mount Kilimanjaro, and on the second day of the ascent, his stomach ached. On the third day there was an altitude sickness. When he finally got to the top, he collapsed helplessly, all in tears, and he had to be demolished on a stretcher. It's time to reprogram its operating system. As Johnson himself says, he began by abandoning the pose of the conqueror of the world, which concealed his weakness and doubts. And although the whole story may seem overly dramatic, especially since Johnson still demonstrates the image of an entrepreneur conquering the world, in reality everything was like this: over the next year and a half, he divorced his wife, sold Braintree and broke the last ties with the church .